---
title: Hoptoad Gets Paid Accounts and SSL
teaser: We're happy to introduce paid accounts and SSL protection for Hoptoad.
tags: news,airbrake
author: Tammer Saleh
published_on: 2008-12-15
---

It's been a little over five months since we launched Hoptoad, and we've caught
over  million application errors from people riding the toad.  Now we're taking
it to the next level and [rolling out paid
plans](http://hoptoadapp.com/account/new) along with some new features.

## When I Ride The Toad, I Ride Him with a Saddle

![''](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/2008-12-12-Hoptoad-4.jpg)

Hoptoad has been an incredible success since its launch.  The people using the
service so far have absolutely proven our original assumption that a lot of the
things we were feeling pain with in our consulting business are things felt by a
lot of other web application developers too.

As more and more people have signed up, we've had a great relationship with
EngineYard from an infrastructure perspective as both the data storage and
bandwidth needs of the service have continued to grow (most recently we moved
onto a dedicated MySQL cluster to account for future growth).

This usage growth has been fantastic to watch, and doing frequent production
deploys to satisfy feature requests and feedback from actual users of the
service has been a great motivation to keep improving the service for ourselves
as well.

Today we're excited to introduce paid plans for hoptoad - but first we want to
make it clear how much we've appreciated the feedback from our current users -
**as long as you stay at your current project and user usage, you will never be
charged.**  Right now 75% of our users fall into the Egg plan, which is
completely free.  Finally, we decided that (just like new accounts) when current
users decide to upgrade to any of the paid plans, they'll get a 30 day free
trial at the new plan level.

## Lock that Toad Up

![SSL](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/2008-12-12-Hoptoad_Now_has_Paid_Plans_and_SSL_-_GIANT_ROBOTS_SMASHING_INTO_OTHER_GIANT_ROBOTS.jpg)

The Hoptoad Notifier plugin does its best to strip out sensitive data (like
passwords in the post parameters) before sending the exception along.  But we've
always felt just a little funny about sending even the rest of the exception
data in the clear. **That's why we're now introducing [<abbr title="Secure
Sockets Layer">SSL</abbr>](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL) support.**

Enabling SSL is as simple as upgrading your account to either the Toad or
Bullfrog plans, and adding the `secure` option to your Hoptoad Notifier
configuration:

```ruby
HoptoadNotifier.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = '1234567890abcdef'
  config.secure  = true
end
```

## Halp

Finally, in order to better serve the existing users in the Hoptoad community -
and what we hope will be a new group of hoptoad customers - we've installed the
[tender](http://tenderapp.com/) support actually, from ENTP.  Tender gives a
much more friendly experience than dropping a tired, downtrodden user in front
of a cold, silent lighthouse page.  So use the new [Hoptoad
support](http://hoptoad.tenderapp.com/) area for leaving feedback and asking
questions.

## Thanks

So thanks again to the businesses, hobbyists and other developers that have
tried out hoptoad and told us that you find value in the service.  If you're an
existing customer,  you'll find the plan details in the account edit area of
your existing account.  If you create a new account, the details are right there
on the [new account](http://hoptoadapp.com/account/new) page.

FYI: _Hoptoad/Airbrake was sold to RackSpace and is now called [Airbrake Bug Tracker](http://airbrake.io)_.